`Children in language shift: the syntax of fifth-generation South African Indian English speakers’. South African Journal of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 2003. 21(3):119-26.

`Putting back the cart before the horse: the spelling form fallacy in Second Language Acquisition Studies, with special reference to the treatment of schwa in Black South African English’. English World Wide, 2005. 26 (2): 127-151.

`Assessing representations of South African Indian English in writing: an application of Variation theory’. Language Variation and Change, 2005. 17: 303-326.

Anti-deletions in a second language variety: a study of Black South African English mesolect. English World Wide, 2006, 27(2):111-146.

‘Language shift, cultural change and identity retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and beyond’. South African Historical Journal. 2007, 57: 134-152.

Necessary versus sufficient conditions for using new languages in South African higher education: a linguistic appraisal. Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development. 2008, 29(4):325-340. Selected by the publishers as Routledge’s best article on the thinking of Michael Halliday (50 Key thinkers in Linguistics); and for an e-collection on language in Africa.

Is English a glottophagic language in South Africa? English Today. 2008. 24(2):13-19.

South Africa. In Yearbook of South Asian Languages. 2008: 237-41.

The risks of crossing: a retrospect from apartheid South Africa. SPIL PLUS. 2009.

Socio-phonetics and social change: deracialisation of the GOOSE vowel in South African English. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 2010. 14(1):3-33. Listed on the Journal website as number 1 article over the 3 year period 2010-13.

New Englishes and the native speaker. Language Sciences. 2010. 32(6):594-601. (listed as no. 14 of the top articles in Language Sciences in the 12 year period 2000-2011).

Ethnicity, substrate and place: the dynamics of Coloured and Indian English in five South African cities in relation to the variable (t). Language Variation and Change. 24(3):371-396. 2012.

(with Ellen Hurst) Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa: an analytic overview of tsotsitaals with special reference to the Cape Town variety. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 28(1): 103-130. 2013.

Where does a New English dictionary stop?: on the making of the Dictionary of South African Indian English. English Today. 29(1):36-43. 2013.

“When you hang out with the guys it keeps you in style” – the case for considering style in South African tsotsitaals. Language Matters 44(1): 3-20. 2013.